SKYPIC Astronomical Image Generating Program
SKYPIC is a program for mapping astronomical source catalogs into
images based on their numbers or fluxes. It is
written in Fortran and C for Unix workstations by
Doug Mink
of the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory
Telescope Data Center.
If you just need maps, use
SKYMAP.
Publications
1997 Seeing the Sky as Galileo Saw It, Doug Mink
1994 Picturing the Guide Star Catalog,
Doug Mink, in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems III,
A.S.P. Conference Series, Vol. 61, 1994, Dennis R. Crabtree, R.J. Hanisch,
and Jeannette Barnes, eds., p. 191.
A 9,334,080-byte FITS file showing the
entire sky at 10 arcminute resolution was the final product of this work
1992 Galactic structure from
the Spacelab infrared telescope. I - 2.4 micron map
Kent,S.M., Mink, D., Fazio, G., Koch, D., Melnick, G., Tardiff, A., Maxson, C.
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 9, Volume 78, pages 403-408.
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Last updated 3 May 2000 by
Doug Mink,
dmink@cfa.harvard.edu